Improvement in whip-socket fasteners



1 dash or other part of a vehicle.

UNITED STATES ATEN'I `WILLIAM W. RIGHARDSOILVOF YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-SOCKET FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,952, dated August19,1873; applicationy filed March 17, 1873.

erence being had to the accompanying draw-l ings and to the letters ofreference markedthereon, and being a part of this specification,

in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of one side of my fastening.Fig. 2 is like view of the opposite side. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectionon w w in Fig. l. Fig. et is a plan of the iieXible portion of thefastener. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the same, showing themanner in which the securing of the bands forms an eyelet through theflexible part of the fastening, taken on y y in Fig. l.

Like letters indicate like parts in each iigure.

The nature of this invention' relates to an improvement in theconstruction of devices for securing whip-sockets to the rails of theThe invention consists in the peculiar construction of their variousparts, and in their arrangement, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, A represents a section of a dash-rod or side rail of anuncovered dash for avehicle. B is a metallic jaw, provided with twoconcave surfaces, one being designed to it the back side of said rail,and the other to fit the shape of the socket, to which it is to befastened. G is a short piece of any iiexible material, the ends of whichare covered by a thin metallic plate, a, pressed on so as to cover aportion of the front and the ends.

,v Small holes b, coincident with similar holes in the jaw B, are thenpunched through the plates a and the flexible strap C from the plate orcovered side, so that the material from the plates will line the holesthrough the strap, as an eyelet, to secure the plates to the strap, andprevent the holes through the latter from tearing out. The iiexiblestrap C is designed to embrace the front side of the dashrod; and asthese latter are of varying size, where metallic clamps are employed,there must be varying sizes to conform to such different sizes ofdash-rods. The employment of the flexible strap enables one size to beused, the iiexibility of the strap allowing it to t the various sizes ofdash-rods. The two parts forming the fastening are secured together andto the rod by small bolts, as shown, by rivets, or other equivalentdevices.

Instead of the j aw B being metallic, as above described, it may be madeof hard rubber, or

any other material which is non-elastic and impervious to water.

I am aware that metallic clamps are employed for this purpose, and Iutterly disclaim any part in their invention; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl 1. The combination of the elastic strap C with the rigid jaw B,substantially as ded scribed, and for the purposes speciiied.

2. In fastenin gs for whip-sockets, the elastic `strap C having platesa, the latter being punched so as to form an eyelet, b, in said strap,for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM W. RICHARDSON. Vitnesses:

H. F. EBERTs, H. S. SPRAGUE.

